Natasha Van Wyk |
Live Pet Portraits & Textile Art – A Community Connection Experience at Live on the Lawn 2025
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The Live Pet Portraits & Textile Art – A Community Connection Experience will involve
Letitia sketching pets live at the "Live on the Lawn" event, while Natasja sews key details onto fabric, highlighting sustainable and up-cycled textile methods. Visitors will have the opportunity to watch, ask questions, and take part in an interactive creative process. This initiative promotes artistic appreciation, strengthens social bonds through shared creative experiences, and supports local artists by showcasing their work in a vibrant public setting.
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$1,000.00
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Belgrave Survival Day Committee
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Belgrave Survival Day
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Belgrave Survival Day is a positive celebration of the strength and resilience of the the Traditional Owners in the local area of Wurundjeri Country as well as the broader Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. It is a free public, family friendly, all ages, inclusive, one day, outdoor festival event celebrating First Nations Cultures through Ceremony, music, dance, arts, crafts, products and food. |
In-Kind Waste Management
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Healesville Interchurch Community Care Incorporated (HICCI)
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Dinner at Darron's
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Dinner at Darron's is a free weekly community meal served in Healesville. The Dinner commenced in 2007 with an average of 45 patrons attending each week, plus some takeaway meals for those who are not able to attend. There are currently six teams of volunteers rostered on to prepare & serve a two-course meal. Some of the teams are from our member churches, including a Youth Team, as well as the local community. HICCI is represented at the Dinner should any of the patrons need support. We also invite professionals such as our local Police, Eastern Health to share a meal and establish relationships with our patrons. |
$1,500.00
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Australian Red Cross - Yarra Valley Branch
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Home made goods stalls
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We hold monthly stalls at Launch Fresh and local events such as Crank Up and WHYLD over the course of the year. Along with hand knitted or hand sewn goods, we make jams, pickles, relishes, cordials and more. Each of these food items require a label with our name, ingredients and date made to ensure adherence to the Food Safety rules. Our grant application covers the cost of removable labels - jars are re-used wherever possible when customers re-donate them. |
$120.00
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Gladysdale Primary School
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Fun Family Farm Day
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The Fun Family Farm Day event will invove students from Gladysdale Primary School providing a range of activities for Preschoolers to participate in. These may include balloon animals, pin the tail on the donkey, "pig tail" spiral apples, make a cotton ball sheep, clucking chicken from cups and any other activity the students choose to organise. The event will alsoinvolve parent volunteers to direct traffic, support our students running activities and make positive connections with the community. Local kinders and the wider community will be invited.
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$999.00 |
April Vautier |
Australian Wearable Art Festival |
I am a 14 year old origami artist, and I have started making origami clothes. I am too young to enter the Australian Wearable Art Festival, but the organiser has encouraged me to come as an audience member and to tour backstage. I am applying for the grant to cover the cost of entry to the event. |
$250.00 |
Mooroolbark Urban Harvest swap
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Mooroolbark Urban Harvest swap
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This monthly events aim to connect local backyard fruit and vegetable growers. Connecting community members with a common interest and introducing the uninitiated into the joys of locally grown food. By swapping produce and seeds and seedlings we are encouraging food security for the locals
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In-Kind Venue Hire
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Kallista Village Inc
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Kallista Centenary Celebrations
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Kallista Village Inc is holding a community wide event, Kallista Centenary Celebration to recognise the 100-year anniversary of the naming of Kallista. The event will include historical re-enactments, community group Pavilions, First Peoples, a writers expo, Bush Dance, and Youth Stage and Jazz Hall. Collaborations will be made with many community groups including Kallista-The Patch CFA, Kallista Primary, Kallista Kindergarten, Kallista Traders, 3MDR and the event will celebrate the naming of the township and strengthen our community connections. |
In-Kind Waste Management
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Lily Exton
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Under 18 National Championships (Basketball)
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Lily has been selected to represent the Victoria Country Womens Basketball team in the 2025 National Championships to be held in Brisbane 4/4/2025 to 14/04/2025.
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$250.00 |
Quilts for Orphans Inc
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FLOWER (Fabric hugs to Love Others With Warmth, Empathy and Reassurance)
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The project, ‘FLOWER’, (Fabric hugs to Love Others With Warmth, Empathy and Reassurance) will consist of a series of 3 Makers Marathons (with themes of Let's Party and Heart and Home) to create quilt tops - as well as 18 sewing days (Quilting Bees) to complete the quilt projects. Several committee members will also work with our website designer to simplify our current website and learn how we can make changes and upload new material to support us to manage more of the website ourselves, which will be more sustainable for us. |
$1,500.00 |
Hills Act Theatre Company
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Hills Act Theatre Company
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Hills Act Theatre Company will present their first play "Breathless" by Deborah Mulhall, involving 14 young actors. The project will be performed at The Memo Hall, Healesville, and will also be involved in the Community Festival in early March. Key partners are the banks and businesses of Healesville.
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$1,500.00 |
Dani-Ela Kayler
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Purple Pea Wonders
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Dani-Ela Kayler would like to develop the artwork for the “Purple Pea Wonders” a type of discovered-art, postcard installation in collaboration with young local emerging artist Mim White. Monthly Grant funding will develop the initial Purple Pea Wonders project and serve to give Mim an opportunity to develop and showcase her art in her local community. Following this, the projected vision is to apply for a larger Grant in July 2025.
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$1,500.00 |
Montrose Community Cupboard
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OzHarvest NEST Program - Montrose Community Cupboard
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In partnership with Japara Neighbourhood House, Montrose Community Cupboard would like to host a six-week Nutrition Education Skills Training (NEST) program, run by OzHarvest. The program teaches adults about healthy eating and easy, affordable cooking in a friendly and fun environment. Our aim is to offer this program to our volunteer community (we have 93 current volunteers) who will then be able to share their knowledge with others in the community.
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$1,500.00 |
Taia McMechan
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Foot Locker U18 And Junior Wheelchair National Championships
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Taia has been selected to attend he 2025 Foot Locker Under 18 & Junior Wheelchair National Championships in Brendale, QLD. This event is a prestigious national competition that brings together elite young athletes from across Australia to compete in cross-country events, showcasing their skills and sportsmanship. This event will not only be a chance for top athletes to compete but also an opportunity for community engagement and the celebration of diverse talent in the sporting world.
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$250.00 |
Belgrave Survival Day Committee
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Belgrave Survival Day
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Belgrave Survival Day is a positive celebration of the strength and resilience of the the Traditional Owners in the local area of Wurundjeri Country as well as the broader Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. It is a free public, family friendly, all ages, inclusive, one day, outdoor festival event celebrating First Nations Cultures through Ceremony, music, dance, arts, crafts, products and food.
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$500.00 |
Monbulk Car Show Inc
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Monbulk Car Show 2025
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Monculk Car Show 2025 is a static car show held in the main street (closed to normal traffic) of Monbulk. The show will involve 35+ volunteers from the Monbulk Fire Brigade to handle logistics, 6 Commitee members to run the show and many community groups fundraising.
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$1,390.00
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Maya Ward
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And They are Seeing You: Meeting the Gaze of an Alive World - Exhibition Outreach
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The "And They are Seeing You: Meeting the Gaze of an Alive World - Exhibition Outreach" project will involve running a creativity/writing/photography workshop for students at Warburton Arts Centre between February and April 2025. Work the students create during the workshop will be incorporated into a collective, communal and ongoing artwork evolving over the months of the exhibition within the gallery space.
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$1,500.00 |
Ms Rebecca Murray
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marram-al ngurrak-u /Body of the mountain
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marram-al ngurrak-u is an exhibition (plus events), occurring at Burrinja, May-July 2025. Key partners include Body Place Project, Yarra Ranges Council and Creative Australia. Funding requested is for a large-scale cyanotype artwork, beyond the scope of the existing project budget. The proposed work contemplates the rich local culture, history and environment of the Yarra Ranges, and is centred around the Ngurrak Barring trail. It speaks of the spirit of place and the ongoing, interconnected dialogues and stories embedded into the ranges over time. The proposed artwork melds technologies past and present in new innovative ways.
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$1,500.00 |
Ben's Shed Inc
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Printer/Scanner Replacement
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This project involves the replacement of an existing Epson Printer/Scanner with an updated current model to provide ongoing printing and scanning support to Ben's Shed Executive and Committee Members. The current printer is over seven years old and has inherent, age related issues that restrict its application and lowers the quality of the print/scanned product.
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$747.00 |
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Total
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$16,006.00
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